Re: Old open office files

2014-10-09 Thread M. Fioretti
On 2014-10-09 07:35, Paul Paramore wrote: Hello, I downloaded Open Office a long time ago when it was an Oracle program. i wiped my computer clean recently and then downloaded Open Office again and my old Open Office files wouldn't open up in the new program. Hi Paul, since you don't

Re: Non-subscriber questions

2014-08-31 Thread M. Fioretti
On 2014-08-27 19:00, Julian Thomas wrote: On Aug 27, 2014, at 12:04, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: This is exactly the spirit of this list. We very much prefer that users subscribe, and you'll hardly find a link to this list on our site that comes without the recommendation to

status of macro in ODF interoperability?

2014-07-23 Thread M. Fioretti
Greetings, When I wrote this, almost 10 years ago, things didn't looking too good for inter-suite macro compatibility: http://archive09.linux.com/feature/47935 today, I have the feeling thing's haven't really improved, when it comes to macros inserted in ODF files, even considering only the

best macros and macro resources for OpenOffice?

2014-07-16 Thread M. Fioretti
system) Thanks in advance for any feedback, Marco -- M. Fioretti http://mfioretti.com http://stop.zona-m.net Your own civil rights and the quality of your life heavily depend on how software is used *around* you

Re: Please remove my info

2014-05-31 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sat, May 31, 2014 3:00 pm, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Good catch, Brian! I'll remove that document in one week if nobody objects. If the document is still there in one week, feel free to send a reminder. considering the nature of the request and of that document, if I had editing access to

Re: richiesta informazioni

2014-05-31 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sat, May 31, 2014 12:34 pm, ivano camurati wrote: Gentili signori Ho installato open office nel mio computer che usa windows xp home edition. buonasera, personalmente non posso aiutarla perchè non uso Windows. Ma soprattutto, questa è la mailing list inglese di OpenOffice, quasi nessuno

Re: Please remove my info

2014-05-31 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sat, May 31, 2014 4:07 pm, tammie elgammal wrote: Hello Renee, I meant that when you Google my name, tammie elgammal, there is a document that I wrote in open office. just out of curiosity, did YOU put it yourself on the openoffice website? Because in another message here a moderator

Re: Please remove my info - Unclear writing

2014-05-31 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sun, June 1, 2014 4:22 am, japples wrote: Based on what I gleamed, the author published it not knowing the personal information was also published as meta tags. No she didn't. Or at least this is what she said in the email with which she replied (only to me) to my previous one in this

Re: Please remove my info

2014-05-31 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sat, May 31, 2014 11:29 pm, Andrea Pescetti wrote: So: tammieelgammal AT gmail.com, whoever he/she is, created the Drtammie account on our wiki on 27 August 2013 a more exact wording, more coherent with what Tammie says now, would be: somebody who in august 2013 had access to that email

Re: Any thoughts on Tutor.com's policy of MS Word only?

2014-04-17 Thread M. Fioretti
is heavily dependent on several MS specific features to work. Interestingly, that FAQ doesn't mention Office at all, so I'd be curious to know where/how exactly the OP got the explicit answer, IIRC no, OpenOffice is not good. Marco -- M. Fioretti http://mfioretti.com http

status of Microsoft Office compliance with ODF support?

2014-02-15 Thread M. Fioretti
for the OpenDocument Format? Is there something specific that isn't supported yet? What, how.. Case stories, tests, reports, whatever, all pointers are welcome. Thanks in advance! Marco -- M. Fioretti http://mfioretti.com http://stop.zona-m.net Your own civil rights and the quality

Re: A suggestion for those un-interested in off-topic arguments

2014-01-08 Thread M. Fioretti
it since when I wrote about it, and it works. I only realized that there must have been pretty good flamewars here recently when I got Rob's reminder about list policies yesterday -- M. Fioretti http://mfioretti.com http://stop.zona-m.net Your own civil rights

Re: Re: essential remark for majority of OO users - incompatibility ofMath formula editor.

2013-11-12 Thread M. Fioretti
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 12:13:19 PM +0400, svmizin wrote: In other words, what of these two things is the problem: - the formulas generated with the OO formula editor are not readable /editable correctly in MS Office and viceversa This is THE MAIN problem : MS OFFICE document formulas don

Re: essential remark for majority of OO users - incompatibility of Math formula editor.

2013-11-11 Thread M. Fioretti
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 23:25:01 PM -0800, Dr Donald Zarlengo wrote: Great news. Bu my current major problem on my MacBook Pro... excuse me, but.. may I respectfully suggest that a former VP/CIO of IT and Telecom may be expected to know better than highjacking threads on a mailing list (not to

Shall we waste twelve more years promoting Free office suites instead of...

2013-11-09 Thread M. Fioretti
Twelve (TWELVE!!!) years ago I asked OpenOffice users “Are you advocating OO correctly”. Six years ago I said the same things in a different format. A couple of weeks ago, I came across a perfect proof that that kind of advocay IS right, but so far has been never practiced enough. Continues on my

first article on LibreOffice/OpenOffice little known features is online

2013-05-24 Thread M. Fioretti
Greetings, you may remind that a couple months ago I had asked your opinion on what are the least known features of the free office suites. That project was a bit delayed, but in case you missed it, the first article is now finally online at:

macro compatibility between LO and AOO?

2013-03-03 Thread M. Fioretti
Greetings, the subject says it all. I have already searched online, and am looking at the manual but apparently (maybe I used the wrong terms) it is not easy to find CURRENT information on macro compatibility between LO 4 and AOO 3.4.1: will all macros created in one tool also work in the other?